British Executions

Thomas Henry Allaway

Age: 36

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 19 Aug 1922

Crime Location: Boscombe, Bournemouth

Execution Place: Winchester

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/allaway-thomas.htm

Thomas Allaway was convicted of the murder of 31-year-old Irene May Wilkins and sentenced to death.

He lured her from London to Bournemouth on the false pretence of work and battered her to death at Boscombe on 22 December 1921. Her body was found in a field at a lonely spot on Seafield Road.

see National Archives - HO 144/3660

see Homicide 1922